His mother is the publishing director of Yale University Press in New Haven.

"We'll question them exhaustively about what's in it, whether it's on target," John Jay, the publishing director, said in a teleconference with reporters last week.

This year, the voting was more scientific, said David Ebershoff, the Modern Library's publishing director.

He was the principal investor in Spy magazine and is the magazine's publishing director.

"A lot of the articles grew," said Laura Macy, the publishing director.

From 1976-1977 he was the Publisher of the magazine and from 1978 for a period of time he was the publishing director.

John R. Brooks 2d, who graduated in June and is this year's publishing director, says more than 450 students apply each year.

He has served as the publishing director for the Joseph Campbell Foundation since 1999.

"We recognize that this is a magazine aimed at men who are serving in the military," said Duncan Milne, Drill's publishing director.

In the mid-1990s she worked as a publishing director at Reed Books.